Season Ticket and Tailgate Information

As August charges full speed towards the fall and football season, an important question needs to be asked: have you got your season tickets and tailgate plans in order yet?

Season tickets (I believe) are still available, as are individual tickets, though I don't think buying a season ticket guarantees you tickets to "The Rivalry" at this point. If you're a student, your big chance to get tickets starts on September 1st - and I'd suggest jumping on them since "The Rivalry" sells out very early.

Undoubtedly some of you have some sort of rig similar to the one on the left (the picture is missing, of course, the fully stocked bar). If so, you're prepared for any upcoming tailgate at home or away, and I congratulate you. (Of course, if you still need some tailgating gear, I'd encourage you to go to the LFN Tailgate store to maybe get that extra grill cover you might have forgotten.)

For those of you (like me) who might not have invested in ExxonMobil when gas was only 89 cents a gallon and can afford a rig like this, fortunately some of the official alumni clubs have set up official tailgate parties. The information on these is starting to trickle in now.

First comes this from the Lehigh Club for Philadelphia: a pregame breakfast tailgate at Flip & Bailey's (formerly the Wild Onion) September 13th, prior to the away game at Villanova. Starting at 10:00 AM, the price is $20 for adults and $10 for those under 21, and includes a fill breakfast buffet of "bagels, eggs, bacon, sausage and fresh fruit, plus unlimited draft beers (several to choose from) and Bloody Marys," according to the press release. Sounds like a fantastic time! You can register for the event at this link.

The other official tailgate party comes as a part of the extensive Young Alumni Reunion on October 3rd-5th. Lehigh will be hosting Cornell that weekend (the same opponent, incidentally, that Lehigh defeated at the opening of Murray Goodman Stadium 20 years ago this year 27-14), and the cornerstone event (as far as this crazy Lehigh fan is concerned, anyway) is the pregame young alumni tailgate. I mean, corn chowder, fried chicken, sandwiches and a PIE buffet? Not to mention a full array of beverages... That is sick... in a good way.

Tickets are $25, and game tickets are only $5 if you also buy in to another young alumni reunion event such as the Class of 2003 dinner or the Brown & White bash. In addition, there is going to be a party on Friday at the Bethlehem Brew Works as well. Time to get your liver in shape... now.

You can register at this link here. You can check out pictures of last year's event here as well, courtesy of the Facebook Lehigh Alumni group.

But back up to that pie buffet in the tailgate for a second. Seriously, is Paula Deen going to be showing up? That sounds right up her alley...

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By now you've seen the results. In 2018, the Ivy League has taken the FCS by storm. Perhaps it was Penn's 30-10 defeat of Lehigh a couple of weeks ago . Or maybe it was Princeton's 50-9 drubbing of another team that made the FCS Playoffs last year, Monmouth. Or maybe it was Yale's shockingly dominant 35-14 win over nationally-ranked Maine last weekend. The Ivy League has gone an astounding 12-4 so far in out-of-conference play, many of those wins coming against the Patriot League. But it's not just against the Patriot League where the Ivy League has excelled. Every Ivy League school has at least one out-of-conference victory, which is remarkable since it is only three games into their football season. The four losses - Rhode Island over Harvard, Holy Cross over Yale, Delaware over Cornell, and Cal Poly over Brown - were either close losses that could have gone either way or expected blowouts of teams picked to be at the bottom of the Ivy League....

UMass 21, Lafayette 14, halftime

Are you watching this game? UMass had this game under control until about 3 minutes in the second quarter, and then got an interception, converted for a TD. Then the Leopards forced a fumble off the return, and then converted THAT for a TD, making this a game. It's on CN8. You really should be watching this.

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It must be very hard for a millennial to understand the fuss around the Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding figure skating scandal in the run-up to the 1994 Olympics. If you're of a certain age, though - whether you're a figure skating fan or not, and I am decidedly no fan of figure skating - the Shakespearean story of Harding and Kerrigan still engages, and still grabs peoples' attention, twenty years later. Why, though? Why, twenty years later, in a sport I care little, does the story still grab me? Why did I spend time out of my life watching dueling NBC and ESPN documentaries on the subject, and Google multiple stories about Jeff Gilooly , idiot "bodyguards", and the whole sordid affair? I think it's because the story, even twenty years later, is like opium. The addictive story, even now, has everything. Everything. The woman that fought for everything, perhaps crossing over to the dark side to get her chance at Olypic Gold, vs. the woman who...

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